The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-22 00:00:00

MAILS. Ar Due. , AfrirPl. Do , a . 3 France... 0 ..... . 0 1 GUCTII. & Jer4ey 0 0 2derica Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg......., 3 U Cu rthagena...,... 0 0 Holland I , d 11 Jamaica ..... 2 f I.:nders 0 0 Leeward Wands U .fir:•wea. 0 LW 00 0 MY.ta ...... 0 0 0 0 Ostend. . ...... 0 Sweden 2 Waterford 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 5O minutes after 11 I Evening 0 minutes after 0 The publication of Tug Sus NRWSPAPE/ commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITET WHICH I , THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1838. Mr. ROEBUCK, though strictly speaking not agent for Canada, neither his appointment nor salary having been sanctioned by the Legislative Council, is to all intents and purposes agent for the aggrieved parties in the Lower Province, and will be heard as their ad vc,cate in the House of Commons this evening. Jus tice, necessity, and policy, require that he should be heard before the Bill which suspends the rights and privileges of the Legislative Assembly be discussed. He was appointed by that body agent in 183.5 ; he was requested to represent to the Govern ment and the Imperial Parliament the interests and sentiments of their constituents, and he has been received in that character by the Colonial Secrctary. There is but one opinion among all candid and intelli g,uit observers on this subject. The inhabitants of Lower Canada have able advocates in the House, but there is no one so well entitled or so fitted both by his local knowledge and eloquence to undertake their defence. We trust, for the sake of the mis guided Canadians, that his expressi , ;ms of feel in:; for their wrongs w:11 be tempered with judg mont—that he will give no at antage to his opponents by deviation frJrn facti, or by any threat of assistance from foreigners. Such a line of defence would only rlienate many who are anxiou• to do them justice, and tfl'ord a triumph to those who wouU refuse than all redress. An antiquated Cootetriporary is indiolant at the very idea, of his being allowed to appear in their behalf, and seems surprised that he is at large and forthcoming to act the pleader on this occasion. T;te vigorous measures of former times, when Sir JOHN Sci CT •as Attorne, -General, should be revived, M os.BUCK z-liond have been throxn into gaol, a -d, place of pleatFng for others, heea called on to plead at the bar of the Old Ballev, on a eliar4e of high crimes and misdemc,inonrs. Rut we must forgive this 0 14,,Ilreak. Old people cannot help regretting the past, and occasionally ma%e wonderful exertions to d'sprove toe truth of the proverb : " Ler,lt a;begcelis animos The Eirl of Dt:11.11ANI has had an audience of her MAJESTY, and was ino , :t graciously received. • ate may take this opportunity of stati.;gt th it the report s-hich has appear.ql in an Evenint Contenipora-y, that the N-:)le Earl ilal deeli.iel to accept the appoint:cent to Canada till h: . was a'ked by h. r Majes yin person, and n hich a Morn ing Co; 'entpor..ry so uweremonionsly contradicts, is strictly potitive!y true ! The Noble Earl instantly acceded to )-.1- Majesty's personal contreazdz, that to them all re. , onal coi,siderations mu.t give say. The only condition wide by t! - :e Noble Earl was, that neither hin - oelf nor his pri. ate Secretary a' ould receive any salary. We may aid •t th' Noble Earl nac requested to undertake the Govern n.ent of Canada some time ago, previously to the revolt, but that personal considerations then compelled the Noble Earl to He has now only given iy.ly the extrtion of the h ghes - inficence in the gtate."—Courier. The Times, with its characteristic vulgarity, sneer • ed at the statement respecting her MAJESTY'S request, whic:i appeared in The Sun of Friday, and which our Eveaing Contemporary of Saturday so amply confirms. We may add that we also heard that Lord DURTIAM Ree2pted the office on condition that he was to receive no salary, but doubting what now appears to be a fact, wc declined giving it. The Times of this morning, in quoting the above paragraph from the Courier, has the hardihood to swear on—"fudge again —foolish fudge !" Now if it believes it to he fudge, why copy it ? Is it for the cuckoo pleasure of repcwing fudge—foolish fudge ? Suppose it were to change its note, and say more truly Apostate—foolish apostate !" It is gratifying to perceive that amidst the political excitement called forth by the unhappy state of affairs in our North American Colonies, the people are not inattentive to those improvements in our reptesenta ti:e system, without which there cannot be any solid or permanent foundation for public liberty, either at home or abroad. It is to defective representation that the people owe the weighty grievances of which they have so long and so justly complained. This is the fertile source of all that mass of evil which exists in our political, civil, and religious institutions--it is here, therefore, that the remedy, to be effectual, must be ap plied. And this the people know full well. Simple indeed would they be, and marvellously slow to un derstand, if the great schoolmaster experience had not brought this truth home to their minds. To extend the Franchise, to shorten the duration of PArliament, and to do away with open voting, are the three great points which must be carried, before it can be said that our representative system is in conformity -with the rights of the people, or even with the theory .of the Constitution. " But these are organic changes," exclaim the professed enemies and hullow friends of _Reform, " and we have had enough of them." Now, with respect to such changes we should like to know what there is so formidable in the word " organic," shut it should never be mentioned without throwing ClQie two classes of persons into hysterics ? if an organ do not answer the purpose for which it was in tended by those who framed it—if its action has been ifflpedeti or perverted, or if improvements in science have rendered its mechanical construction obsolete— what does common sense dictate, but that it should Te ceive such alterations as may adapt it to purposes of Pr •etieal utility ? Now this is in reality all that aid - R u f or ,:ners require. They do not demand a novurn 1 that they want is to havc the old one or vanum--»a: put into a serviceable state of repair. Surely t here is nothing very extravagant or very terrible in such a demand. With respect to the extension of the Suffrage, we would ask those, whether Whigs or Tories, who hold it as a constitutional maxim that representation should be no—extensive with taxation, how they pretend to re concile with this maxim the denial of the elective fran chise to the working classes ? The quibble about the differemce between direct and indirect taxation will not aiower their purpose. The day is gone by w!len men weft:" to be gulled by such nonsense. The real question is nct about the nia.;ner iu which the tax is taken out of the payer's pocket—not whether the tax-gatherer boldly thrilsts in his hand and whips out the hard cash, or whether it is drawn out more slily and imperceptibly by a taxation-price being fixed upon articles of consumption : the real question is, does the working man contribute to the expenses of the State And this quetaion may be answered by stating the re sult of a calculation made by Mr. FILLDEN, M.P. for Oldham, a genthnnan well acquainted with the con cerns of the working-classes, by which it appears that when the necessary deductions :or taxation art,: triad from a cotton-Tlaner':i daily earni T izs, t h ere renntins q P---;.,772., A 4, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1838. a surplus of three halfpence. If any man has a dim to the franchise on the score of contributing to the public expenses, surely it is the man who contributes his all—or nearly his all. Far be it from us to dispute the stringency of the taxation argument. Good had it been for this country if those who pay the taxes had had a control over the expenditure of their own money. The labour of the working man —aye, and of his children to the latest generation—would not have been mortgaged, as it now is, to pay the interest of a debt contracted in im pious, though happily unavailing, attempts, to crush the liberties of our fellow-citizens and of our neigh bours. Neither, perhaps, should we of the present day have been fortuned to witness than most edify ing of all legislative spectacles which presented to the eves of an admiring world the British Parliament— Lords and Commons—Peers responsible to GOD alone, but acting as the " tribunes of the poor," and representatives (!) of the people responsible to their constituents—screwing up the price of bread to the famine point, in order to put money into their own pockets ! This was the crowning mercy which put an appropriate finish to the squandering of the people's money in a long and bloody war abroad by the humane policy of starving them at home. These are some of the things that would not have been had representation gone hand in hand with taxa- Still the right to the elective franchise must not be supposed to depend solely or even chiefly on the payment of taxes. It rests on other and higher grounds than any that have respect to property. Many there are—too many--who possess but little property; but as a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth, and as the life and liberty of the poor man—things which are as dear to him as to the man of rank and wealth —arc placed at the mercy of the law-makers, it is just and proper that he should have something to say in their appointment. As matters now stand what interest have the great mass of the comtnu nity in what is called the British Constitution ? What one privilege do the working classes enjoy—ex cept the privileges of paying taxes, and shedding their blood in defence of others—in defence cf a system which condemns them to degradation, and unremitting labour at t'ree half-pence a day Look at the num ber of inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, and at the number enjoying the elective franchise, and what is the result ? Why, that hardly one in fifty has a voice in the choice of a representative. We shall probably be told that these arguments go the length of Universal Suffrage. We admit it. We hold, that to choose his representative in Parliament is the right of every man of mature age, of competent in tefligonce, and of a chat acter uestained by crime. But it' we cannot obtain this right, or do not choose to push it forward at the present moment, are we to make no advance towards it ? Are we to be refused a por tion of our rights because we do not demand the whole at once ? Are we to be denied any the smallest ex tension of the Suffrage because that Suffrage ought to be universal ? What monstrous absurdity ! Neither must it be overlooked in discussing this point that, if an extension of the Suffrage be an or ganic change, it is a change to those " old ways" in which so many of our would-be Constitutionalists de light to walk. Household Suffrage is not only no in- Tovation, hut was the original privilege of all the English and Scottish boroughs, and continued in practice in many of the former down to the passing of the Reform Bill. The same constitutional argu ment is ap2licable to the shorter duration of Parlia ment. 'Without entering into the disputed question, whether Parliaments were annual or not in ancient times, we need only go back to the " glorious" revolution in 1688, when triennial Parliaments were the law of the land ; which they continued to be, until the people were swindled out of their rights by an unconstitutional stretch of power on the part of their so-called repre sentatives. Lion. The extension of the Franchise, however, and the shortening of Parliaments, unless accompanied by the Ballot, instead of bettering our condition, would place us more than ever at the mercy of our enemies. To extend the Franchise is an unquestionably good general principle ; but does it therefore follow that it is to be acted upon at all times and under all circumstances ? By no means. So far from it, that it is in fact to the indiscriminate and unguarded application of this very principle that we may, in a great measure, attribute the failure of the Reform Bill to realize the hopes of the nation. The fifty-pound tenant-at-will clause was foisted into the Bill under the pretence of extending the Suffrage, and though it originated in a quarte r which ought to have excited suspicion, was defended on that ground by many staunch Reformers. And what has been the consequence ? Has it not enabled the tyrants of the soil to overpower, by the coerced votes of their serfs, the independent portio❑ of the constituencies, and thus thrown the representation of almost all the counties into the hands of the Tories ? Extension of Suffrage, therefore, without protection to the voter, would be any thing but a benefit. Without this protection too, to shorten the duration of Parlia ments would give a manifest advantage to the Tories. They are the more wealthy party, and it would be their policy, by contesting every election, to drive liberal candidates from the field, by the fear of en countering the enormous expense to which they would to a certainty be put, in having to struggle, not merely against a rich and powerful antagonist, but against the joint-stock purse of a whole party. We want no ghost to tell us how the Tories would act in such an event. The SPOTTISWOODE conspiracy has written their character and conduct in letters of indelible in famy. It is a never-dying witness against them and their atrocious principles. We had prepared a few more observations on the Ballot, but want of space compels us to postpone them to another opportunity. One or two weekly papers seeking to ingratiate them selves with the working classes, are throwing doubts upon, or attempting to palliate, the dreadful crimes that have been proved to exist. As to the question whe ther the individuals tried were or were not participes criminis in the murders perpetrated and contemplated, is a subject upon which we shall not enter. No mat ter who those parties were. The dreadful system was proved beyond the possibility of a doubt ; and, being so, it would much better become the friends of the working classes, instead of making common cause with the guilty, to draw a line of demarcation between the guilty and the innocent. We have ever been, and ever shall be the advocate of the operative classes, knowing, as we do, that they are the bees of one com mon hive, and that upon their labours the whole social fabric rests ; but we should ill do our duty to them were we to believe them capable of viewing, with feel ings other than those of indignation and horror, the dreadful system of crime that has just been brought to ii2ht. We only now recur to it, in order to bring be fore Parliament and the public the fact, that in the very scene and centre of this system another body of operatives have for years struggled with the greatest distress and destitution—have been " steeped in p3verty to the very lips"—have toiled, with their little ones, sixteen hours per dav, for a scanty pittance of oatmeal and water, measured by about four shillings .per man per week—and yet, with all their sufferings, with all their temptations, have for nearly twenty years patiently borne their ac cumulated distre s ses w i t h out ever resorting, or being accused or suspected of resorting, to such means . If some of the spinners of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, whose earnings have oscillated between 20s. and 30s. per week, have committed the crimes imputed to them, what shall be said of the hand-loom weavers of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, rho, goaded on by unmitigated miseries and by that " hope deferred which maketh the heart sick," have ever kept themselves free, untainted, and unsuspected of such atrocious schemes of " self preservation ?" Surely Parliament will take the case of those long suffering and most deserving operatives into speedy and effectual con sideration, and push on the Committee that has been ap pointed, to an early report of the best means of practical relief. Combinations, it should be recollected, are not confined to the working classes alone; the poor hand-loom weavers could prove this in their own case ; their plastic poverty and increasing numbers made them easy victims to the cupidity and cruelty of their com peting and monopoly-desiring employers, who, to un dersell each other, gradually reduced their wages until they were brought to the destitute condition in which they have ever since remained. We hope this subject will not be forgotten in the discussion on Mr. WAK LEY'S motion, which will take place to-night. We have received Madrid Journals to the 12th instant inclusive. On the Bth Senor HUELVES made a motion in the Chamber of Deputies relative to the disturbed state of Toledo, which led to an angry de_ bate of three days duration. Senor Hum. vEs drew a frightful picture of the state of the Provinces, and denounced as treacherous or cowardly in the last de gree the conduct of Brigadiers SANZ and Ruts— officers entrusted with the protection of the inhabitants of disturbed districts. In conclusion he observed : " The rJads are infested with Carlist robbers, and the un fortunat, travellers surfer a captivity more insupportable than the Christians who of yore were taken by the pirates of Al giers. The Carlists, in their everting revels, play at monte for the ransom of the prisoners "rho have the misfortune to fall into their hands. The Government should act with energy and tact. It is here, in Madrid, that the Carlists purchase arms and horses ; here they have their principal junta; tuld but a few days ago four of one of the bdrids entered the metro polis to arrange with one of the relatives of a wealthy individual whom they nad entrapped regarding the price of his ransom." The Minister of War attcmptd a defence of the Government which, he said, was obliged to wink at the appearance of Carlist agents in the capital for arranging the terms of the ransom of prisoners, otherwise such prisoners would be shot. He had likewise thought it his duty to soften the rigour of martial law, by directing that Carlists taken with arms in their hands should not be shot without undergoing a trial. Senor SAN l'vllGuEf. was dissatisfied with the conduct of Ministers, and said the question fur the Cabinet to determine was— I' Have 17e, or have we rot, stiff ivnt means to put down the faction? If we have, they are not properly esod, and the officers who command our troops are traitors. If we have not let the Government state so fcauldy, and I am sure that tne Cortes %%DI grant them with goo I will." The Unister of Finance replied to Senor SAN MI GUEL, but his speech was more an attack upon the character of that Deputy than a defence of the policy of his colleagues. Senor INFANTES repeated the question of SAN MIGUEL, and taxed Ministers with incapacity, whereupon the Minister of Grace and Jus tice thought proper to eulogise his colleagnec as men whose public services and sacrifices were worthy of the gratitude of the Spanish nation. On the renewal of the debate on the 9th, Senor CABALLERO, one of the boldest, and most eloquent members of the Ultra-liberal opposition, addressed the Chamber ill a very long speech, condeMnatory of the conduct of the Ministry. In reference to the Minister of War's defence, he pointedly observed— " It was yesterday said by a Member of the Govt•rnment, that the actual Ministry had been appointed little more than a fortnight since, and that wonders could not be effected in that brief space ; but I would remin I the Chamber that in this actual calamitous period, fifteen days is more than a year in the tranquil times of Florida B:anca. One of the evils which in my opinion has increased those of the nation is the excess:Ye lenity shown towards the enemies of the country since the year 1834—lenity still persevered, according to the manifestation made yesterday by the Minister of War, who said that orders had been given to the commanders of the Queen's forces not to shoot the rebels without subjecting them to the formalities of a trial. This lenity is shown towards the Carlists, whilst, on the other hand, we observe captains-general of provinces transporting beyond the seas ship-loads of worthy citizens, without trial, although, according to the laws, no man should be punished until his guilt is proved. Yet the Go vernment which tolerates these arbitrary proceedings now orders that without trial no Carlist, although found in the act of rebellion, can be shot I" To this statement the Minister of Grace and Justice made the following reply : " With reference to the observations of Senor Cabaltern, respecting the orders issued to the commanders of the Queen's forces not to shoot the Carlists, I have only to say that the small parties coaposed of militia, at the same time that they render important services, suffer their enthusiasm to get the better of their reason, and hum ry them into acts of the grossest injustice. The man who appears in arms for the purpose of overturning the Constitution must be punished, but it is not right nor just that the commanders who are appointed to pro ceed against the enemy should invade the asylum of a citizen whom he only suspects of Carlism, and should lead hint at once to the scaffold. If this were to be allowed, who would be safe? Would this be the reign of the law, for which Hon. Deputies seem so desirous ? If these excesses were tolerated, where should we find a guarantee for the freedom of our fellow citizens ?" With respect to the dismissal of Emplolges by the Government, the Minister of Grace and Justice begged to observe a profound silence. A Cabinet, b e ob served, might have many reasons for the dismissal of subordinates totally unconnected with political ()Pi nions. This observation called up Senor Is - NARDI, a dismissed official, who demanded to know if the Minister alluded to him? Senor CAsTRO r eplied that as a Minister he w ou ld not b e i nterrogate d , upon which ISNARDI denou nce d hi m an d hi s colleagues as calumniators. A scene of great confusion ensue d, which was put an end to by th e retract i on of the offen- sive expression. After several other Deputies had spoken the debate was again adjourned, and renewed on the following day with increased animation. It was concluded by Count TORENO, who delivered a long speech in favour of moderation. The following is his estimate of the physical force required to put down the rebellion : If we possess sufficient decision, for my part I believe that with the 200,000 troops which the nation pays we shall be able to destroy the faction, if all this force were of the same description as that of Navarre; but this is a point which re quires to be examined." , In reply to some suggestions relative to the destruc- __ ---- ion of Carlists root and branch, he made the follow•- ing declaration, which he repeated in a louder voice on being assailed with groans from the public galleries : " It is impossible to terminate the civil war by the destruc tion of one party, as all civil wars of this description, in which the question has not been settled by foreign aid, have been concluded by compromise or reconciliation." On the subject of that most cheerless of topics, the emptiness of the Spanish Exchequer, the ex-Minister observed, in a tone meant to be exceedingly con solatory " Public credit, gentlemen, is at present extremely low, and this is the point which requires the skill of an able physician to improve its condition. It is necessary not to make great proposal s , b ut to go on li tt l e b y li tt l e i m p rov i ng it. T his en _ tirely d e p en d s on conf id ence, whichconfidence must b e secured by our ow n con d uct, b y t h at o f t h e G overnment , an d all that relates to th e war. I n E urope t h ere i s a b un d ance of capital unemployed th roug h want o f confidence in negotiatio ns w hi ch might prove u ncerta i n; b ut the moment t h at a so lid h ope of a successful termi na ti on o f t h e war i s entertained, this capi ta l will find its way amongst us much quicker than we might even expect !" A division followed, in which Ministers obtained a large majority. But this is no proof of any want of disturbance in the provinces. On the contrary, no _ thing can be conceived more wretched than the e on _ dition of the inhabitants of La Mancha, Estremadura, and Toledo. Bands of Carlists are moving in every direction, and such is the weakness, cowardice, or in capacity of the QUEEN'i Generals, that they rarely meet with any resistance. As for ESPARTERO he is laid up for the winter, so that the Carlists may be said to have the whole country at their mercy. Never be fore was the state of Spain more perilous. The Paris Papers of Thursday, Friday, and Satur. day, have all been received. The Moniteur of Thurs• day contains the following official announcement : __ " The Viceroy of Egypt has authorised, until the latter end of February, 1838, the importation of wheat at Alexandria, by vessels of all nations, on the following conditions : "1. The importation is to be freed from the consumption duty. 2. The wheat is not to be sent into the interior of the country, but must be sold within the walls of Alexandria, in the public market allotted to the sale of provisions. "3. The inspectors will have a right to set apart all the grain that niay be damaged, or deemed injurious to health." The Ambassador of the Gland Duke of TUSCANY, M. BERLINGHIERI died in Paris on Wednesday last, in the 78th year of his age. His Excellency was a Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The journals of Thursday and Friday are chiefly taken up with discussing the merits of the Canadian question. Advices from Greece of the 28th ult. announce the dismissal of M. RUDHART, who was to leave Athens on his return to Bavaria on the Bth inst. The joy of the Greeks for so happy a riddance was unbounded. Letters from Berlin of the 13th inst. state that an amicable termination of the Prussian quarrel with the POPE may be anticipated. His Holiness has signified that he is now led to regard the complaints of the Archbishop of COLOGNE as exaggerated, and the KING in reply made fresh concessions to the Holy See. The Marquis of ESPEJA, Spanish Ambassador to the Court of France, and Lord WILLIAM HERVEY, Private Secretary of Sir GEORGE VILLIERS, arrived in Paris on Friday. The following summary of the latest news from Spain is copied from Galignani's Messenger of Sa turday : " We learn by correspondence of the I Gth from Bayonne, that Espartero had entered Vitoria with twelve battalions of infantry and some cavalry, and that on his approach the Car lists retired from Balrnaceda. He had left but few troops at Vittoria, and was rnanceuvring to attack the Carlist expe ditionary battalions, which were closely observed by Buerens. A valuable convoy, which had left Tafalla for Pampeluna, had been seized by the Carlists, after a severe engagement. The Carlist General Urbistondo, who commanded in Cata lonia, had left his command, and had passed through Bayonne. He had come into the provinces, in obedience to an order from Don Carlos. All the detachments of the British Legion had left St. Sebastian, and it was stated that the cavalry and artil lery, which had recently resumed their service, had demanded their discharge." The King has viven 12,000 francs from his privy purse, the Queen 3,000, Madame Adelaide 3,000 and the Duke of Or leans 6,000, to be distributed among the poor of the capital in Achet, for wood and s-up. Yesterday morning the Siena was frozen over at the bridge of Austerlitz, where the masses of ice were stopped, and people cross it on foot. We have been assured that a man has passed it with his cart, but IN e cannot warrant this as true. Izi the night on the 10th the cold at Geneva was more in tense than it had ever been since meteorological observations have been made there, viz., 20 deg. (Reaumer) 143 deg. (Fahrenheit) below frening point.—Commerce. 1 ` We find no other intelligence of any moment in thsse Journals. FRENCH FUNDS —PARIS, JAN. 20. Five per Cents., 109 f. GOc. 65c. 55c. Four per Cents., 1. 2f, fhree per CeLts., 79f 55c. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,°10f. 2,605 f. hente 05 Naples, 9Pf. Me. 5 c. Roman Five per Cents., 1111%%. Spanish Actives, 2n%%. Spanish Passives, 4%. Spanish Differes, Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10nf, 1 ,4. Belgian Bank, 1,510 f. Portuguese Loan. Three per Cents. 19%. Haytian Loan, 375 f. 372 f. EXCHANOR ON LONDON. °memo:lth, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 47Y,c Tkrec months, paper, 25f. sc. ; money, 25f. ;.2%e. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 100 f. 60c. Three per Cents., 79f. 60c. Bank Actions, 2,605 f. Romani, 101%. Belgian Rank, 1,5100 Portuguese Three per Cents., 10%. Spanish Actives, 2.tz%. Spanish Passives, 4%. Spanish Di3'eres, 5 New Differes. 6 k Haytiau Loan, 372 f. 50e. Brussels and German papers of the latest dates have been received this morning. The following ex tracts from them are interesting : At this moment the convent of the A , lfzustines at Ghent is on fire ; the flames have spread to the a (joining manufactory of cotton yarn, and to several neighbout:ag houses. The fire broke out at half-past two this morning —Moniteur Beige of the 20th. From the Russian Frontiers, Dec. 28.—A letter from St. Petersburg says that the negociations that wire set on foot for a marriage between the Imperial Prince llexander of Russia and one of the amiable Princesses, day, 'hers of the Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, have led to the r. -t satisfactory result. The young couple are to be betrothed he summer of 1838. It is said, on half official authority, fron 3t. Petersburg, that the Emperor Nicholas himself will con. o Germany in J une or July, an d h ave an i nterv i ew a t T ot with his allies, the Emperor of Austria and the King of I ' , •issia. It is not im probable that the affairs of Spain ma: o discussed on that occasion. BELGIAN- }UNDS—Bauser - .+, JAN. O. Actual Debt, 2j per Cent. Rothachild's Loan, 5 per Cent Loan of Thirty Milliom.... ............... Loan of City, 1632, 4 per Cent llo,i Society of Commerce, 4c, per Ce-t Rank of Belgium, I per Cent 115% National Society . - DUTCH FUNDS.—MISTERDAM, JAN. 18. Actual Debt, 2 % per Cent. Do do. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4% per Cent~ Do. do. 3% per Cent. Commercial Company, 453 per Cent 176% New ditto —Brussels Papers, Jan. 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtaxxa, J.l N. 12. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Ceuts. Three per Cents Bank Shares 1365 —Allgemeine Zeitunz, Jam. 17. L 7 Lord _teut.Lor, Henry Russell, who was so severely in jured in the head, by the falling of a block while fitting out the Melville, 74 guns, will in a few days leave Haslar Hos pital perfectly recovered; his Lordship will owe his life, not to the comforts of a home, but to the strict quietude of a well conducted Government hospital, superintended, the portion of it; in which he was placed, by a gentleman of acknowledged ability and unwearied assiduity. His Lordship is an honour to his noble house and lineage, and, more than that, he is a sea man, and an officer who loves his profession ; we consequently congratulate the service on his recovery.—Hampshire Te legraph. The Earl of Surrey gave his first grand dinner, on Saturday, in 'Whitehall-place. Count Seckendorf, at present Prussian Charge d'Affaires, is said to b• about to proceed as Envoy from his Court to tkat of Belgium, in the room of the Baron Leydon, removed to Frankfort. The late Lord Farnborough was the second son of Mr. Beeston Long, an eminent West India merchant, and, dying without issue, the title, of which he was the first posses sor, becomes extinct. Sir E. Walsham, the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioner, made a proposition to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Board of Guardians that they should not allow any out-door relief to the mothers of illegitimate c hild ren, a f ter two months from their confinement. After a long discussion with " the worthy C o mmissioner," the Gua r d ians a l most unanimously rejected the proposit ion.—Sunderland Beacon. On Monday, the Bth inst., about two o'clock P. m. a foreign schooner was discovered with a fl ag h o i ste d f or a pilot, about 10 miles distant from th e L owesto ff shore. Two pilots immediately put off with 13 men i n one b oat (t h e P eace ) , and one pilot with 21 men in another b oat . Th e men on s h ore expected other foreign ships would be in the offing. The wind blew high, about E. N. E. B ot h yawls carried their mainsail at first. The vessel , instead of keeping its first course, which was towards the boats, when they were five or six miles from the shore hauled her wind, and stood out to sea. The y aw ls had therefore much farther to go to reach the ship, and this brought them into th e even i ng before they were aware o f their situation. Th e w i n d meantime increased, and the snow drifted. Great anxiety was now felt by the exper'enced beachmen about the yawls. At seven o'clock one of them reached the shore, having had a very narrow escape. The men on bo ar d h a d not seen any other foreign ships, ,and therefore returned. It is supposed that the other yawl (the Peace) endeavoured to get in at the Gatway missed the light, it being thick with snow, get into broke, water, and went down. But none are left to tell the tale of w o e. Some remains of the wreck have been washed on shore. In consequence of this accident twelve widows (some of them in the family way) and thirty-two children have be come destitute; and besides this fifty eight families have been deprived of their means of getting a livelihood during the winter season, as they have now no great boat to go off in coarse weather, to get anchors, and assist vessels in distress. The value of this lost boat and her tackle was about 1501. Great assistance has been derived from the neighbour hood. " The Pakefield henchmen have," says a Lowe , : toff correspondent, " behaved like brothers, Laving (unsoli cited) raised among themselves and sent 51. 12 , . for the widows." METEOROLICAL REPORT FOR 1837.—The winds—East 45 days ; west GO ; north 50 ; south 60 ; north east 71 ; south-east 23 ; north-west 14 ; south-west 72. It rained or snowed on 140 days, quantity in inches 30-13; mean height of barometer 29 64 ; ditto thermometer in shade at noon 52,i ; mean of thermometer for 1836 in same situa tion, 522. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY. FRENynt V. THE RIGHT HON. FRANKLAND LEWIS. The arguments in this case, the facts of which we gave on Saturday, were resumed to-day. . - Mr. WIGRANI proceeded to address the Court in support of the de. murrer put in by the Guardians of the Poor appointed by the Poor Law Commissioners, and had not concluded when our reporter left. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Nothing of any interest took place in this Court during the morning. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) SUSPECTED ROBBER.T.—EdwardJones, an elderly man, by trade a tailor, and Robert Maryon, a lad, were placed at the bar by Sergeant Po cock and Braddick, a constable of the F division, charged on suspicion with stealing an iron eash-box containing 821. 7s. 9d., of which they could give no satisfactory account. It appeared from the evidence, that about nine o'clock on Saturday night, the younger prisoner entered the Star and Garter public-house, Green-street, Leicester-square, and going into'the parlour, returned lc:to the street immediately and brought in the other prisoner. There was no other person in the room at the time, and after they had called for a pint ofale, the younger prisoner was heard to make some observations about a watch, and presently the other drew a small iron box from a hand kerchief, which excited the suspicions of the landlord, and he procured a friend to call in a policeman and gave them into custody. In answer to the charge, Jones accounted for his possession of the money by saying that he lived in Macclesfield-street, Soho, and that he had accumulated the money by his trade, and he was going to deposit it in the hands of a friend in St. Martin's-lane, but the other prisoner had nothing to do with it, as he was only altering a coat and waistcoat for him, previous to his going to a new situation. The constable said that the prisoner had told him he was taking the box to 52, Pall-mall, and that he was a gold and silversmith, and was in the habit of dealing with wealthy persons. Mr. Smith, a licensed-victualler, of King-street, Soho, deposed that the prisoner Maryan lived with him since he was a young boy, and that he had strong reasons to suspect that he had at various times taken sums of money from the till without his knowledge or approbation. The prisoner, in reply, denied that he was ever guilty of taking mo_ icy in the way represented, and that he was only joined by the other prisoner while he was going to his uncle's in Westminster, and that only a few minutes previous he had delivered him his clothes. Sir F. Roe said the ease was involved in much mystery, and the account given by the prisoners by no means was satisfactory, and in order to procure as much evidence as possible the prisoners should be brought up again on Wednesday next. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There were moderate arrivas of most kinds of Grain last week, and scarcely any business transacted, on account of the frost having stopped the navigation. This morning there is a middling show of samples of all kinds of Corn, and a thaw having occurred, leads to the hope that business may be resumed in a few days. At present there is scarcely anything to be done. The millers still hold Flour at higher pric.'s, most of them call the top 535., but the bakers comply very reluctantly, and the advance is not considered as established. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) s2s. 5,)s Beans, Small (new) 36s 3'P,s White (01d)... 655. — (old) 42s. 4os. Red 18.37) 42s. 45s Ti c k ( new ) '2ss 31s. Fine 4 , ! , 5. 52s Superfine 54e. 575. Harrow (new) ...325.34e. Wlyte (1837) 44s. 535. --- (old). Fine Superfine 58..5. 535. Oats, Feed Foreign free 50: 68s. ~30s. 345. Pol n d Rye Barley °23. 25s - Grinding 23s 27s - Malting 3os. 34i. Malt 46. 545. - Fine New 565. 60s. Pease, Grey, New 30s. 31s. - Maple New 323. 933. - White .ss. 1151 - Boilers 375. ?Ss. New 2n:•.24. Potatoe 265.30 New 24..26 Scotch 24 .2'7.. --- Irish 17i. Flour Town per sack) 503.52. seconds 45, 488. N.rtli Country 425.448 Bran 6, 9. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. Demand better today, and the supply considerable. Beef and mut ton made much about previous prices. There might have been a de cline had it not been for the breaking up of the frost. Veal fully as dear as before. Pork altered very trivially in value. On the whole the mai ket rather looked up than otherwise. FRICFS ?ER STC/NE OF BLII. TO SINK TWF OFFALS. s. d.tos.d lnierior Beasts .. Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Brime large Oxen 4 3 8 I.ime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 4 rime small ditto S•ickling Calves each l6 r I''3 01 9. O. to,. d. Inferisr Sheep 3 0 3 2 Second quality ditto. 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 11 10 4 0 Southdown Webers Laige Flogs 9 2 4 8 Small Porkers 410 5 4 Quarter old Pig omchi 12 :0 SUFPLY AT MARKET. Psasts. I Sheep Calve I PO, 3,310 27,701 I 175 eO2 NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcas3. s cl. tos d. s d to s <4. reef, inferior 2lO 3 6 Mutton, inferior '3 4 3 6 - midd1ing.......,.... :3 2 3 4 --- middling 1 8 810 --- prime large - prime mkt] 1 8 310 Pork, large '1 2 4 .1 Veal PROVISION MARKET. Owing to the frost the stocks are not large. The demand continues good, at d Tv! en we left the market today, prices remained generally as last week. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The stt?ply today good, but owing to the sudden thaw there was i3srcely any business done; prices much as on Saturday. TALLOW AND OIL ➢IARKET. P.Y. te.day is 4 Ss. Fish Oils are on the decline. Seal at 401. to 41/. Cod has been sold at 381., and Pale METAL MARKET. There is something like a general move in this market, and prices of most kinds may be regarded as advancing. Spelter is an exception, it fetches now only 151. per ton, which is lower. COLONIAL MARKETS. There were no public Sales to-day of Colonial produee except of Wool, which do not begin until the evening. This commodity sells briskly at 4d. per lb. advance on last Sale prices. There is a fair business ad vertised for the week; the principal Sales are of Mauritius Sugar, Salt petre, Wool and Drugs. Now the weather has changed so much busi ness of all kinds may be expected to revive. In Canadian produce, we have to notice that Canadian Balsam has risen from 3s. to 7s. per lb. within the last month. INDIGO SALE.—(FIFTH DAY.) This sale progresses to-day much as it has done in every respect before, which we have reported. If any alteration in price, the article is a little cheaper. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DERBY CORN MARKET, JAN. 20, 1838. Our market day being exceedingly cold, was ♦ery small. Most sorts of Grain found buyers at 2s. per quarter advance. Wheat 565. to 629.; Fine Barley, :30s. to 34s ; Oats 20s. to 265.; New Beans, 345. to 38s. ; Flour being scarce advanced 3a. per bag. NEWCASI LE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—Jan. 20. . _ Our supply of Wheat was again moderate from the interior at this day's Market, and we had no fresh arrivals from the coast, which caused the whole to be in good demand, and at an advange of Is. per quarter on the prices of last Saturday. Barley also being scarce, brought Is. per qr. more money. Oats were in large supply, and sold freely at last week's rates. In the demand for Malt there was no improvement, sales being difficult to effect at our quotations. For Rye we have rather more enquiry, and prices are a shade higher. In Beans or Pease we can note no change. Flour meets a fair demand at an advance of Is. per sack. New. Old. Wheat, Northumhcrland - Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 60 f..... 665. Cs. 1 Berwick and Scotch l 3s. s —s We. ---- Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflhlk SOs. 34s -s. —s. Grinding and Feeding 23s. 24. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk s2s 57;. —s. --s. Beans, Small —1 —8 rrh Si s. Tick —s. --is 33s. 84s. Pease, White 13s. 3 , a. . ... -- g, .—.4, -- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... Es. 255....... 255. 275. —.---- Feed Foreign Flour (per sack) —s. --8 4ls. 445. An old woman named Mary Clifford died on Fri- Friday at Brighton in a state apparently of the greatest des titution, but after her decease was found to have left a will, bequeathing to her son property to the extent of 1,000/. She lived in so miserable a manner, and presented altogether such an appearance of extreme poverty, that every one who saw her was deceived by her looks; the tax-gatherers had remitted her rates ; the assistant-overseer and his deputy, keen as such per sons usually are, were her dupes. The deputy visited her at her house, and reported the case as one which required " great attention," as appeared by the parish-books, and re lief was accordingly granted. Yet this wretched old creature (she was 72 years of age) had, in the usual phrase, " seen better days," and received the advantages of education. She was a native of Stone, in Staffordshire, had filled the situation of governess in the family of the Earl of Glasgow, and also of Mr. Hare Townsend, of Guilford. On becoming a widow, twenty years ago, she hired a lodging-house at Brighton. At her death she had 180/. in the Brighton Savings' Bank, up wards of 100/. in the Bank of England, a bond on a gentleman of property residing here for 6 . 00/. with oth er secur i t i es for money lent. So completely did she carry on the deception, that her son, who is a jobbing carpenter, aged 50, was quite ignorant that his mother possessed any property, an d was pro portionably surprised to fied himself heir to the above sum. It is painful to add that the medical men who attended her are of opinion that her death was accelerated by the want of nourishment ; and her death, possessing such means as she had in her power, cannot be considered but as an act of suicide. FULMER, BUCKS.—On Monday last a servant having been sent by his master from Eton College to fetch some wine from the Rectory-house, Fulmer, was accompanied by the owner of the horse he had hired, whose name was John Knight, who took a gun with him to shoot larks by the way. On their arrival at Fulmer, Knight, without the common pre caution of removing the cap from the nipple of the percussion gun, concealed it among the shrubs on the front lawn. After loading the cart, as it left the premises, he stooped down and pulled the gun from a laurel in which it was concealed, with the muzzle towards him, when it is presumed a branch or other im pediment caught the lock, and discharged the whole contents into his breast. He fell on his face, groaned once, and was a corpse. Knight was a fly-owner and driver at Eton. He bore an excellent character for sobriety, civility, and attention, and has left a widow and two children. During a severe season like the present, we are sure to hear of numerous accidents, because persons who know little of the danger confidently and carelessly make use of guns. The greater number of these accidents would be avoided if the two following cautions were attended to :-1, When a gun is carried into wood, or handed through a hedge, never let it point to yourself or any other per.on. 2. Never let your gun out of your hands without re moving the copper cap ; a percussion gun without a cap can not be discharged, and is therefore safe. An inquest was held on the body of John Knight, by Mr. Charsley, the Coroner, on Tuesday, at the Black Horse, Fulmer, and a verdict of " Accidental death" return e d by the jury ; who observed, on viewing the body, that the passage of the charge could Le traced from the deceased's hand through his coat sleeve and lapel to ilia right breast, through the lungs, heart, and dia phragm, down to his left side above the hip bone. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and her august mother attended divine service yesterday morning in the New Palace. The Dean of Chester officiated, and the Bishop of London preached the sermon. Lady Portman, the Hon. Miss Murray, Miss Lister, Viscount Torrington, Sir Frederick iitovin, and other Ladies and Gen tlemen of the Household were in attendance. The Earl of Durham, G. C. 8., had an audience of the Queen on Saturday at the New Palace, and kissed hands on being appointed Governisr-in-Chief of the British North American Provinces, and her Majesty's Commissioner for the Canadas. The Noble Earl was introduced by Lord Glenelg, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty on Saturday. The Queen gave audiences on Saturday to the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis Conyngham, and Viscount Melbourne. The Royal dinner party on Saturday evening at the New Palace included the Duchess of Sutherland and the Lord Chamberlain. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance during the evening in the gallery. The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Prin cess Augusta of Cambridge, attended divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Andley-street. The Committee of Lloyd's, including G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman, John Pryer, Esq., Samuel Smith, Esq., John Poole, E,q., John Simpson, Esq., James Bischoff, Esq., and Joseph Wartnaby, Esq., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, in Downing-street. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign Office. It wes attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lans downe, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howick. The Council sat till a quarter before seven o'clock. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office, from Sierra Leone. The Grecian and Spanish Ministers transacted business on Saturday. at the Foreign Office. Lord Dalmeny had an interview with Lord Glenelg on Saturday, st the Colonial Office. A deputation of London distillers had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord John Russell gave a Parliamentary dinner on Satur day, at his residence, in Wilton-crescent. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. _ __ The Marquis of Granby, at the Carlton Hotel, from Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland; Lord Charles Man ners, at ditto, from Leicestershire; the Hon. R. and Mrs. Scarlett, in Spring-gardens, from Hastings ; the Earl Cado gan, in Piccadilly, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchio ness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert, Staffordshire; the Earl of Harrowby, in Grosvenor-square, from his seat in Staffordshire ; the Hon. Mrs. Stopford from Gloucestershire ; Earl Amherst, in Grosvenor-street, from Montreal, his seat in Kent; Vis countess Cremorne and Captaine Rawdon, in Stanhope-street, Mayfair, from Dublin ; Countess. Mountnorris in Wyndham place, Bryanston-square ; Viscountess Jocelyn in Piccadilly ; Mr. F. Bathurst in Bolton -street; the Countess of Euston and the Ladies Fitzroy in Grosvenor-place ; Mr. Trent in Grosvenor-place ; Mr. Standish in Brook -street ; the Rev. Mr. Stanley in Piccadilly ; Mr. and Mrs. Mills, at Camel ford House, Park-lane; Mrs. Spencer Stanhope in Langham place ; Richard Hodgson, Esq., M. P., in St. James's -square, from Norwich ; F. Ives, Esq., in St. James's-square, from Norwich ; Mrs. Hume, at 'Warne's Hotel, from Ramsgate. DEPARTURES. John Bird, Esq., and Mrs. Bird, from the Green Park Hotel, for Congreve House, Birmingham ; Mrs. Davis, from Warne's Hotel, for Liverpool; Captain Try, from ditto, South ampton. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. New Brunswick Papers to the 19th December do not contain an fres!) news from Canada. The Transit steamer has arrived from Lisbon, by which papers have been received to the 14th instant, The Lisbon papers, of the 13th inst., state that the project of the Commission appointed to examine the projects of the Finance Minister, have reported to the Cortes as follows :- Ist. To capitalize the floating debt. 20. To capitalize the paper money now existing; to substitute for the anticipations upon the customs letters upon the junta of publi cre.lit. 3d. For the emission of 1,200 contos of reis in notes payable by th revenue of the tobacco contract in the year 1840. 4th. For the emission of 3,000 contos of reis in certificates of paper money; and concluded by presenting various projects on a basis to • carry the above resolutions into effect. All was tranquil at Lisbon on the 13th inst., and no further mention of Remichedo. Now that the weather has changed, and a thaw commenced, we may daily expect the arrival of the packet Virginia, of :he 26th ult , from New York, at Liverpool, and in all prsb ibility the packet of the Ist inst. Both of them are anxiously looked for by the merchants and public.. THE FUNDS. The Censol Market during Saturday was very buoyant, and consi derable purchases were made in the *sours° of the day in the various British Funds for money stock; and Consols closed firm at 91i both for the Account and Money ; opened at the same this morning. Ex chequer Bills, 21,4 d. per day, 54 56 prem. ; India Bonds, 51 53 prem.; Bank Stock, 2051; India Bonds to be paid off on the 30th ef June next, 13 to 15. The Foreign Market is also very inactive at present, and the prices may be quoted the same as they left off on Saturday. Spanish Active, 19 to 191, with Coupons ; Portuguese 29 to 29i ; Three per Cents., 19 to 191 i ; Brazilian, 714 721 ; Mexican, 26i ; Columbian, 241 The accounts from Lisbon continue to state that the people and em ployes are in a state of starvation. They cannot procure any money from the Ministry, and the Treasury is empty. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2 per Csat. , ed. 9 2 1,f, 2 Jitto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. ................. 9lsh% South Sea Stork 3 per Old Annnitlei ..... .. 90 Ditto Red. ... . ............. 100 1 ,4 100 4 New Ditto New ;s Cent 3 pei Cent. Annuities, 1751._ New 5 per Cent.. Bnat Ltan.,Annui ties to expire Ditto 500 55 37 55 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-16 Ditto Small 54 57 55 pra. Oct. 10 , 559 14 13-16 Ditto Commercial ...... Jan. 5, 13 60 1434 Ditto Ad ver ti se d — Pas • Jan. 5, IMO — Bank Stock for Account.., 203 b 6 April 5, Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account gl PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS CMS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds . — Peruvian Bonds ....... _ Belgian P.c.aads — 1_ Ditto Account ..... Ditto Account Brazilian Bends ortugueae Bonds ....... Ditto Account — Citto New BoreAs 2.0%. Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent._ .... Prursian Bonds — Russian Bomls, 1822 .... ll2 Ditto Account... — Ditto Metallic.... ...... Spanish Banda Ditto Account • ••••••• ••• .... Ditto Bondi, laAt. — Ditto Account l 9i French, 5 per cent.......... —f. —c. --. 4 per cent. —L —c 3 per coat —l. —% ExchaAge —f. —e. Dutch, 2ki percent. 5211N,3i ii %. Ditto Account 52%, Ditto, 5 per cent. lOl% Ditto Account ... ........... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western Railway btient v‘,estern Railway Company..... 55 70 Brighton Railway Company London and Blackwall Railway Lo don arid Greenwich Railway Company 26 16 bildon and Croydon Railway Company siichester sad Leeds Railway Company York and North Midland Railway Company 6 2 London and Westminster Back 2O 21% I HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The report which prevailed late on Saturday, of an unfavourable issue of Sir John Colborne, in the attack on Grand Brute, is entirely dis. credited in the City this morning. Had there been any arrival of a later date from Canada, we should have known it to a certaintr this morning. The above originated in the arrival of the Philao.elphia packet of the 20th ult. Accounts from Liverpool state that a vessel has been telegraphed off' Holyhead yesterday, No. 860, supposed to be the Virginia packet, from New York, of the 26th ult., which is rather doubted in the City. The British Funds have been inactive during the morning. Consols at one period were 911 I ; at present, 04 4 ; Exchequer Bills, id, 55, 57, 23. d. per day; India Bonds, 52 53 ; Bank Stock, 206. The South American Stocks are in much the same state as in the early part of the morning; scarce a bargain doing in them. Spanish Active, 19A 1, with Coupons; Portuguese, 29/ ; Colombian, 241 i Dutch Two.and.a.half, 52{ ; in other Securities nothing doing. THREE O'CLOCK ~........ Ditto Account - el C CI yr CII ;kinds Ditto Account hilliYu Bonds ......... Ditto Account CAuinhian 1 - :onds Ditto Account ...... C3lumbian Bonds, Ditto Account Ihnish Bonds ••.....••• ...... ..• Ditto Account Greek ........ Di; to Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account ....... Mexican Bonsis, 5 per cent — Ditto Account . ........ Ditto, 6 per cu l t. Ditto Account ............ Neapolitzn . ...... PRICES OF SHARES THI. Consols for the Aseount, , li I. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge honoured the performance of Le Nozze di Figaro with their presence on Saturday even ing at the Opera Buffs. Lord and Lady John Russell and the Hon. Miss Lister, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Sir Francis Bur dett, and Miss Burdett Coutts, were among the fashionables who occupied private boxes to see Mr. Charles Kean in Ham let, on Friday evening, at Drury-lane Theatre. Richard tlic Third will, it is said, be Mr. Kean's next character. The office of High Steward of the University of ax_ ford, which has become vacant by the death of Lord o,don, is in the gift of the Chancellor (the Duke of Wellingto,n), to be approved of by convocation ; Sir Robert Peel, Lord Win chilsea, and Lord Malmesbury are named, a.mong:others, as likely to succeed to it. A vacancy has occurred among the Masters in Chancery by the death of Mr. Roupell, which event took place on Saturday morning. 'Die Queen has been pleased to appoint the ReN4 William Davison Fox to the living of Delamere, in Cheshire. The Bishop of Hereford has consented to fcaego the tolls of the nine days' fair in that city, and also to an Act of Parliament limiting its duration to one day in the year, on condition that the town council will pay all expenses is obtaining- the Bill, including the charge of the Bis! Op's solicitor. At a meeting of the manufacturers of Kiddermin ster, held on Monday last, it was unanimously resolved, in consequence of the increased price of materials, to advance carpeting and rugs about ten per cent. —Kidderminster Paper. Accounts from St. Pctersburgh to the 3d inst. are: still full of details respecting the fire at the Winter Palace., The Hermitage has been saved, and many jewels, books, p 7 .c. tures, and other articles of value, were rescued from the Em press's apartment. The fire broke out at eight o'clock in the evening of the 29th ult., and continued to burn with undimi nished violence for thirty hours. When it became evident that the Palace could not be saved the Emperor gave orders that every (ffurt should be made to preserve at least the Her ini:age. While the Palace was burning a fire broke out at Wassili Ostrow, at the port of the galleys. The hereditary Grand Duke immediately repaired to the spot, by order of the Emperor, and the fire was soon extinguished by the exertions of the Finland regiment of the guards.